American politicians forget: disruption and disorder are the point of protests
The Guardian - 2024-05-06T16:00:43.000Z

I have trespassed in peaceful protest. I have shut down government offices in civil disobedience. I have made the powerful uncomfortable. That’s the point“In America, the student movement has been seriously radicalized wherever police and police brutality intervened in essentially nonviolent demonstrations: occupations of administration buildings, sit-ins, et cetera.” – Hannah Arendt, observing Columbia University protests in 1968.When you’ve been in the midst of a demonstration that devolves...

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